FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK With Halloween fast approaching, we

Mount hope MUSTANG NEWS
oct/NOV 2014
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FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK
HALLOWEEN UPDATE
With Halloween fast approaching, we
have a few reminders for students and
families. Students are welcome to bring a
costume for Halloween on Friday, October
31st. We will be following a special
schedule that will allow time after the second nutrition break for celebrations and a
Special thanks to The Wing 447 for host- school-wide parade. Lunch will be from
ing the barbeque this year. We appreciate 12 to 12:40 p.m. After lunch, students will
have time to dress in their costumes. Our
working with this local community partfirst parade begins at 1 p.m.
ner.
(Kindergarten) followed by our Primary/
Our annual Terry Fox event was another
Junior parade. Parents and family memgreat success. Thank you to everyone who bers are welcome to join in our celebramade a contribution to help support this
tion. We may or may not be indoors for
great cause and thank you to Mr. Smith
the parades.
who organized our event again this year.
We are collecting non-perishable food
EQAO individual results were sent home items in the lobby again this year starting
on Monday October 27th. We hope to fill
with our grade 4 and 7 students recently.
several boxes for our local food bank.
We continue to have strong results as a
Should you wish to send some treats for
school in all areas that EQAO tests. The
the children to share on Halloween day,
combined results for the past 3 years show please make sure they are nut-free and
that Mount Hope students are achieving at individually wrapped. Your child’s teachlevels higher than the Board and Province er will alert students to any other specific
in reading, writing and math.
allergies in the classroom.
There will be a dance held in the gym for
Congratulations to our Sr. Girls and Sr.
Boys 3-Pitch teams that took part in tour- students in grades 7 and 8. An alternative
activity room is available for students in
naments on September 15 and 17. As
well, our Grade 3 to 8 Cross Country run- grades 7 and 8.
ners did extremely well at their meet on
 Costumes should be brought to school
October 9th, bringing home 4 champion- in the backpack and students should be
ship banners—what a great effort by all of able to put their costume on independently.
our runners!
On behalf of the staff, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to the many
families who attended our “Meet and
Greet” night. It was wonderful to meet
new members of our school community
and get re-acquainted with so many others.
Our Fall Fun Day on October 10th was a
big success—thank you to the parent volunteers who helped out and to our School
Council for supporting this event.
Mr. R. Maudsley
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Please do not send make-up for students to apply. Students may wear makeup
to school in the morning if this is an integral part of the costume.
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WEBSITE
In an effort to provide more timely communication about school happenings and
events, we will be making better use of our
schools website this year! Through the
school website you can get the latest news,
access to the monthly newsletters, and
your child’s teacher may also have a class
blog that you can access easily through the
click of your mouse.
We need your help to achieve this! Please
visit the school website at
www.hwdsb.on.ca/mounthope
On the right hand side there is a Subscribe
section. Please click on Subscribe and
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Once you have filled in this subscription
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After completing this, whenever anything
new is posted to the Mount Hope school
website you will receive an email notification.
Thank you for your co-operation with this
new initiative, and we look forward to
keeping you up to date on school happenings.
NO weapons of any kind are to be sent
SAVE THE DATE
to
school
(toy knives, guns, pitchforks,
SCHOOL COUNCIL NEWS
etc.) and masks must not hinder vision.
NOV 18—Progress Reports go
School Council held its first meeting on
home (Gr 1-8)
September 18th. At this meeting the exec-  Please do not send students in “gory”
or “bloody” costumes. The point of the
NOV 20—Parent/Teacher
utive positions for this year were filled by
day is to have fun in the school setting and
Evening Interviews (Gr 1-8)
Sharon Reichheld and Amanda Fehrman
not scare our younger students. Save those
(Co-chairs), Karen Hancock (Treasurer),
types of costumes for night-time trick-or- NOV 21—PA Day No school for students.
and Deana Worne-Laing (Secretary). The treating please!
Parent/Teacher Interviews for
next meeting of the Council is November
Gr 1-8
3 at 6:30 p.m.